Hi turtle. On 8/21/07, turtle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI all this is my first time posting here. > I am looking for some recomendations, how to's wiki's etc. > I would like to configure our Gentoo server to send its mail to a MTA over the > net at dreamhost.
It sounds like you are trying to set up the gentoo server so that it will use the dreamhost server as a smarthost, is that correct? > I am looking at [url]http://www.postfix.org/docs.html[/url] and > [url=http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3011748.html]ssmtp[/url] > The Gentoo server needs to also other admin stuff using the /usr/bin/mail type > command. > /usr/bin/mail formats the headers and hands the message off to postfix for delivery you > 4) I need to store the username and password for the email account on the > Gentoo server securely. > 5) I would like security when transfering username and pass to dreamhosts MTA. > 6) I would like to make sure the Gentoo server cannot be hacked and used for > spam. Configuring postfix to require TLS with certificates will take care of the first two, item 6 is more dependent on what else you are running on that machine and how you have configured the machine. > 7) The Gentoo server does not need to receive any mail. > What should I use? > Eratta: I have procmail and sendmail already installed and running but the > config process is for this is confusing. uninstall sendmail if you are going to use postfix, they do the same thing and you will be confused as to what is doing what. > The problem is the mail is not reliably getting through (the main mail/web > server in the "from" is at our domain the server sending the mail is not) > mail needs to be from our actual domain for peoples spam filters. Note: There > is no way of adding our server as a sub domain. > Cheers turtle If you have access to the server configuration at dreamhost you can set it to accept mail from the ip of your server for forwarding; doing this in combination with requiring TLS will make it relatively spoof proof. If you don't have access to the configuration of the remote host you will need to bug the admin for the dreamhost account to set up the necessary configuration for you. Some useful HOWTOs http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_relaying_through_another_mailserver http://www.posluns.com/guides/postfix_sasltls.html hope that helps. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
